D’Angelo Lovell Williams articulates the Black queer experience

Drawing on contemporary culture, history, and their own life, the artist’s latest book is veiled with a sense of surrealism ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ © D’Angelo Lovell Williams. D’Angelo Lovell Williams draws on contemporary culture, history, and their own life to articulate the Black queer experience William’s latest book, Contact High, presents a sequence of 45 images that depict Black queer figures – themselves, friends, family and lovers – where bodies are contorted, manipulated, or in a state of unrest. Hands reach from beyond the frame; bodies blend to appear as one. Visceral and intimate, the images are layered with meanings relating to queerness, Blackness, gender, history and Williams’ own experiences. The work was made over the last five years; the earliest images date back to their time in graduate school at Syracuse University in New York. These photographs are not presented as a series, but as single images. Each one demands its viewers’ attention, confronting them with often uncomfortable themes that are embedded in the complexities of contemporary life. [Read more]( Five of the best books to look out for this month From the latest chapter of Laia Abril’s long-term project ‘A History of Misogyny’ to Rachel Papo’s collaborative exploration of pregnancy and motherhood, we round up the publications not to miss [Read more]( © JH Engström & Margot Wallard. Love Songs: Photographic ballads from the 1950s to today Closing this Sunday, Maison Européenne de la Photographie’s lauded exhibition proposes an alternative history of photography – told through the lens of love [Read more]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [1854 Media Ltd, The Trampery on the Gantry, Studio 3 , South Loading Bay, Broadcast Centre, Here East , London, E15 2HB, United Kingdom Click here to update your email preferences]( [Click here to unsubscribe from all emails](